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VLC Acquiring Lots of New Features
jones_supa writes: Two weekends ago an update for VLC media player was shared during a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM. Lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf covered VLC's continued vibrant development, as well as features that are coming for VLC 2.2 and VLC 3.0. VLC 2.2.0 will feature automatic, GPU-accelerated video rotation support, extension improvements, resume handling, support for new codecs/formats and rewrites to some of the existing formats, VDPAU GPU zero-copy support, x265 encoder support, etc. Further out is VLC 3.0.0, which is planned to have Wayland support, GPU zero-copy support for OpenMAX IL, ARIB subtitle support, HEVC / VP9 hardware decoding on Android, a rework of the MP4 and TS demuxers, and browsing improvements. The VLC FOSDEM 2015 presentation is available in PDF form. The VLC Git shortlog can be used to follow the development of the project.
I am surprised too. It is nice to see a application that has not yet been ruined with the UX-plague. Perhaps on the next version the buttons are randomized across the screen and the screen estate used for actual content is minimized while the amount of whitespace in screen is maximised. It would also bee so hip to remove half of the configuration items, as they are said to confuse the stupid user.
Also make a minimalistic website with the only VLC cone logo with a drop shadow, along with a text "Simple. Beautiful. Elegant. Media the way you want it." Then just a big download button.